About Lori
Dr. Lori Malkasian is a licensed marriage and family therapist with a Doctor of Psychology degree and 20 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping adolescents and adults who are facing tough moments.
She listens, asks practical questions, and helps people find steps that make daily life more manageable. Her work often addresses anxiety, depression, anger, and the stress that comes with parenting or growing up. She also supports people working through grief, trauma, relationship strain, addiction concerns, ADHD, and career or financial stress.
Background and approach
Sessions are conversational and goal-focused so progress can be tracked. Dr. Malkasian uses straightforward strategies from approaches like cognitive behavioral techniques and mindfulness to help people change unhelpful thinking and react differently to stress.
She blends this with client-centered conversation and narrative work to help people tell a clearer story about their life and choices. Parents who are worried about teen behavior or school struggles will find information on practical skills for managing outbursts, building social skills, and improving communication.
She also offers guidance for adults dealing with major life changes, compassion fatigue, or persistent low energy and mood. Her background combines clinical training with many years seeing teens and adults in South Carolina. She aims to create sessions that are calm, direct, and useful so people can leave with concrete next steps and options for follow-up.
Approaches that translate to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and reflecting back the client's experience so goals feel clear and relevant; it helps people feel heard and find their own answers. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) teaches practical steps to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which can be practiced between sessions to reduce anxiety and improve mood. Emotionally-focused ideas help people understand and shift interaction patterns in relationships, useful for improving communication and reducing conflict.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, try methods that fit those goals, and adjust based on what helps. This collaborative process helps tailor sessions to each person's needs and preferences.
Online therapy offers flexible options like video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for interactive skill practice and face-to-face conversation; phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging let people share thoughts between sessions and fit therapy into busy days. These formats make it simpler to keep momentum and try practical strategies in real life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Depression
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- South Carolina
- Languages
- English
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